Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Anthology Call for Submissions

"Hidden Identities" Contemporary Romance Anthology Project!

Although this is not sponsored by iWriteNetwork, you are the first people we thought of to invite!

Here are the deets:
• Genre: Contemporary Romance (Sorry, no YA and it has to be clean)
• Theme: Hidden Identity (of a main character)
• Size: 10,000-15,000 words
• Purpose: Getting your name out there. If the anthology makes a little money, it will be used first for advertising to spread the contributors' names through ebook-dom. Beyond that, the proceeds will be returned to the contributors to defray their cost for producing the novelette they submitted.
• Scope of Project: Novelettes will be included in the anthology for 3 years from publication date. After 90 days of the anthology's publication date, novelettes can be published by the contributing authors in other mediums.
• Submitted works must be original and not already published in some form somewhere.

How do you get involved?
• Letter of Interest: Send an email to 2anthologies@gmail.com that includes your synopsis and first page, embedded in the email.

Time Frame
• Story synopsis and 1st page are due October 1, 2014
• Submissions accepted will be notified by October 15, 2014
• Full drafts due for critique on January 15, 2015
• Return all critiques to contributing authors by February 1, 2015
• Complete revisions and edits on your story from the critiques returned to you on Feb. 1st, too
• Have (you pay for) a professional line-edit completed on your story by February 28, 2015
• Submit author bio and back cover blurb for your story with your finished story on Feb. 28, 2015

Commitment
• Meet deadlines
• $20.00 upfront for marketing, This will be paid back as funds become available from book sales.
• Critique all works accepted for publication, and you will receive critiques from all authors for your submission, too!
• Submit your story to critiquers and for final submission in Word doc or docx using 1" margins, 12pt Times New Roman font.